the left, as opposed to the right: the left hand, the left side, or the direction left
This is the ordinary Hebrew word for the left, the counterpart of the right. Most often it names the left hand or the left side of a body, and by extension the left side of any space and the leftward direction.
Because people in the Bible got their bearings by facing the rising sun in the east, the left hand pointed north. So the same word can mean north when it describes geography, the way an English speaker once said a place lay to one's left rather than naming the compass point. This is not a different word but the same left seen from a fixed viewpoint.
The right hand carried strong associations of strength, honor, and favor, and the left was the lesser side by comparison. The word itself, though, is usually plain and physical: which hand, which side, which way. It frequently appears beside the word for right, and the pairing of the two becomes a common way of saying every direction or no deviation at all, as in turning aside neither to the right nor to the left.